{"id":500440,"date":"2026-03-03T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500440\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:26:07","slug":"report-steelers-are-telling-interested-teams-te-pat-freiermuth-isnt-available-in-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500440\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steelers are telling interested teams TE Pat Freiermuth isn&#8217;t available in trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reduced usage of Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth has prompted other teams to explore whether he\u2019s available in trade.<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Mike DeFabo of The Athletic reports that the Steelers are telling interested teams that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7079348\/2026\/03\/02\/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-combine-free-agency-offseason-plans\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.calO.ZTP-2zG-e4pD&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he\u2019s not available<\/a>. DeFabo adds that at least six teams would be interested in Freiermuth.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, Freiermuth isn\u2019t among the league\u2019s handful of untouchable players. If someone offers enough, the Steelers won\u2019t say no.<\/p>\n<p>A five-year veteran who was a second-round pick in the 2021 draft, Freiermuth had the second-fewest receptions and second-fewest yards of his career in 2025. Also, he barely played more than 50 percent of the offensive snaps in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Freiermuth possibly would welcome a trade. \u201cI would say that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/pat-freiermuth-disappointed-in-lack-of-opportunities-this-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I am disappointed with the lack of opportunities I was given<\/a>, but at the end of the day, I\u2019m a team player, and I was proud of myself for not making it about myself,\u201d Freiermuth said in January.<\/p>\n<p>The new coaching staff may have bigger plans for Freiermuth, as evidenced by the team\u2019s reluctance to trade him. <\/p>\n<p>Freiermuth is due to make $9.1 million in 2026, with a $1.5 million roster bonus due next Friday. He\u2019s signed through 2028. His cap number this year is $11.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reduced usage of Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth has prompted other teams to explore whether he\u2019s available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-500440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}